It is all obvious or trivial except…

Lazy stupidity

When Jamie Oliver launched his new “punchy” jerk rice in supermarkets, he hoped consumers would fall head over heels for a dish “made with love” and bursting with “attitude”.

But last night his “knockout” creation became the subject of an extraordinary backlash, as Dawn Butler, the shadow equalities minister, accused the celebrity chef of cultural “appropriation”.

Confronting Oliver on Twitter, Ms Butler questioned whether he understood what ‘Jerk’ was and suggested that he receive a “masterclass” from Levi Roots, the British-Jamaican reggae musician and cook.

Sure, jerk rice is a bit odd, jerk is usually a meat marinade or style of cooking. But seriously folks, get over it.

Someone using an asian grain, a pre-Colombian exchange pepper and a European introduced (to the East Coast and Caribbean at least) bird to make jerk chicken is accusing someone else of cultural appropriation?

This is a level of stupidity that makes me think Ms Butler should stop culturally appropriating anything European, such as democracy or (still just about) functional societies, and go live in whatever part of Africa she self-identifies as coming from.

I’m minded to accuse Dawn Butler of cultural appropriation here. Jerk chicken ‘n rice ‘n peas is regular fare in our house. But the recipe’s in no way Jamaican. Jamaican food’s commercial crap. The recipe’s small island cooking. St Vincent to be specific. And the small islands are where you go to get authentic Carribbean food.
(Information & recipe thanks to Pearlene, mother of a g/f. And no-one but no-one argues with Pearlene)

More of this, please. I want the people of Burnley, Swansea, Hartlepool seeing what their modern Labour Party is really like. Not simply riddled with crazy anti-semites but obsessive on irrelevant crap like this.

I was unfortunate enough to be a voter in Butler’s constituency when she was first parachuted into the Commons back in 2005. A complete and utter moron who is only in Parliament because of her race and gender this kind of idiocy – and if you trawl Guido Fawkes you’ll find a dozen examples quite easily- certainly points to urgent franchise reform as people who could put someone like that in Parliament are arguably unqualified to vote

Dawn Butler, of Jamaican heritage, has culturally appropriated the British cultural role of MP. She also lives in the UK and culturally appropriates our water and sewage system, our superb electricity generating system, our education system and our healthcare system. All JO has done is use a perfectly reasonable English word in completely the wrong context. Oi, Dawn, stop appropriating my language too.

“Let’s have all these different cultures all together in a small space but they must rigidly stick to and maintain their own cultures and are absolutely not allowed to mix at all”

In the past we had nation-states with their own (relatively) monocultures which ruled their lands and periodically fought each other for ownership of more land. The left now seem to want that but at the level of streets and neighbourhoods.

Don’t engage with them on any level other than “Fuck off”. It’s a cynical power play by the Left to just shut you down and make you cringe. They will never apply it to themselves or their allies and is entirely cynical and tactical.

Never apologise, never explain. Let them screech louder and expose what fucking loonies they are.

The Left is emotionally dishonest is closer to the mark, not much thought goes into their inconsistent positions. Twatter gives them the opportunity to have a knee jerk reaction instantaneously with out thinking.